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He led the retreat, holding Saxon's arm, and Bert, giggling and jubilant, brought up the rear with an indignant Mary who protested vainly in his unheeding ears. For a hundred yards they ran and twisted through the trees, and then, no signs of pursuit appearing, they slowed down to a dignified saunter.
It was Luke who rejoiced at catching the largest trout of the season, who never wearied of hayrack rides and corn roasts and bonfires with circles of ghostlike figures enduring the smoke and the damp and the rapid-fire gossiping and giggling. Luke had returned with a healthy coat of tan and a large correspondence list, pledging himself to revisit the spot every season.
Bertram. And what's more he loves me. And you won't have to do any more charing. Only sit here and gorge yourself on the police news, like a lady, and...." "Married!" gasped Mrs. Minto. She gave a foolish giggling laugh, and the tears ran down her cheeks. "Is it true, Sally?" Sally held up her left hand, brought it blazing from under the bedclothes. Mrs.
Occasionally there was a rumble of deep voices in conversation, and in the dark corners subdued laughter while on the front benches the animated and giggling whispering of three little girls tended to relieve the hour from an almost superhuman gravity.
He blushed and looked at his plate, then began again to eat and stopped. "Don't you like it?" one of the giggling girls asked him. "But it's very good. Have another 'Pie!" The meal continued. There were little suckling pigs with "Kasha," a kind of brown buckwheat. Every one was gayer and gayer. Now all talked at once, and no one listened to anything that any one else said.
She brought a couple of sickly children attended by a prim nurse, and in a faint genteel giggling tone cackled to her sister about her fine acquaintance, and how her little Frederick was the image of Lord Claud Lollypop and her sweet Maria had been noticed by the Baroness as they were driving in their donkey-chaise at Roehampton. She urged her to make her papa do something for the darlings.
Here the damsel gave a little shriek, and announced in a giggling voice that she had found the garters. Now the knight errant could depart without any smudge or stain on his honor, and quickly and resolutely he gave Rocinante the spur, and his steed gathered all the strength he had and turned around.
Now you may as well get it out and done with, Jerry; you needn't expect I'm going to help you. The two giggled together. 'What is it, inquired Mrs. Hood. 'I daresay I could guess if I tried very hard. Couldn't you, Emily? 'Now then, Jerry, for the awful news, urged her sister. 'No, you'll have to tell, Jessie, said the other, giggling and blushing. 'Well, I suppose one of us must.
Lucy whispered, giggling. "Aren't they sentimental" "People that age always are," George returned. "They get sentimental over anything at all. Factories or restaurants, it doesn't matter what!" And both of them were seized with fits of laughter which they managed to cover under the general movement of departure, as Isabel had risen to go.
In the morning this white man sat at the breakfast table and my father introduced him to us, saying: "Boys, this is Frederick Douglass, the great colored orator," While I looked at him, giggling as boys will do, Mr.
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